esthete

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In “Wilde’s Women,” Eleanor Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016

Initially known simply as an esthete, Wilde hadn’t published much beyond some poems when he embarked on a lecture tour of the United States.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016

But the esthete also kept silk worms that munched on mulberry leaves he brought from a nearby yard.

From Time Magazine Archive

He still has this ability, and when he picks up a potsherd, he handles it as tenderly as a Chinese esthete caressing a piece of jade.

From Time Magazine Archive

But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee